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A collection of wildly inventive portraits of musician Tom Waits, the result of a 30-year collaboration with photographer and illustrator Matt Mahurin.
This visually arresting book is a testament to the unique collaboration, going back three decades, between the photographer and illustrator Matt Mahurin and the musician Tom Waits.
Having shot magazine portraits, album covers, and music videos of Waits, Mahurin was inspired to resurrect 100 dormant film negatives as a jumping off point to explore his own surreal, poetic, and occasionally dark vision. The images vary from traditional portraits to ones that capture Waits in concert-but the majority are richly imagined scenes in which Waits is more muse than musician. In addition to the diverse images, the book includes a foreword by Waits, an essay by Mahurin on their longtime collaboration, and 20 original paintings, drawings, photographs, and digital images inspired by Waitss song titles.

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ABRAMS NEW YORK TOM WAITS BY MATT MAHURIN - photo 1

ABRAMS, NEW YORK

TOM WAITS BY MATT MAHURIN

THERE IS A CHAIR ON THE WALL AND A TREE IS GROWING D - photo 4

THERE IS A CHAIR ON THE WALL AND A TREE IS GROWING DOWN FROM THE CEILING MY - photo 5

THERE IS A CHAIR ON THE WALL

AND A TREE IS GROWING DOWN FROM THE CEILING

MY HEAD IS A BALL THAT IS SAILING OVER THE FENCE

THE CLOSET IS FILLING UP WITH SHEEP

AND MY MOTHERS VOICE IS CALLING ME

FROM A ROOM WHERE THE PAINT IS PEELING

AND THE LEAVES, LIKE CRUMPLED UP MONEY

ARE CROSSING THE STREET

THE WORLD IS A TUNE IN A MINOR KEY AND

THE MOON IS A BONE ABOVE THE DINER

AND IT LOOKS JUST LIKE ITS A PART OF THE SIGN

ALL THE FURNITURE IS IN THE POOL AND THERE

IS A GORILLA IN THE CORNFIELD..

AND NOW A PUDDLE OF RAINWATER

FORMS IN THE PARKING LOT

AS MATT MAHURIN READIES HIS ARROW

AND STEADIES HIS BOW..

HE WILL COME HOME WITH SUPPER TONIGHT

I HELD ONTO THE STRING FOR MY FATHER

AND THE KITE SHIMMIED UP THE SKY AND

A BUCKET IS DROPPED DOWN INTO THE WELL

AND ALL THE BONES ARE COMING OUT OF ALL

OF THE GRAVEYARDS

AS THE STARS RAINED DOWN UPON THE CORNFIELD

YOU SEE LIFE SOMETIMES GOES BY ONLY ON CRUTCHES

I HAVE BEEN SOBER FOR THIRTY YEARS BUT TONIGHT

I COULDNT RESIST

SAY TONY BE A DARLING AND FIX ME A MARTINI WITH A TWIST

AS MATT MAHURIN STEADIES HIS ARROW

AND READIES HIS BOW

HE WILL COME HOME WITH SUPPER TONIGHT..

TOM WAITS, 2018

THE BEGINNING

During my early career as an illustrator in New York City, I

was commissioned to paint a portrait of some guy named Tom

Waits for an anthology album cover. I had never heard a note

of his music, but I was taking photographs and looking to get

into the portrait world. I tracked down Toms management

and told them I would love to photograph Tom for the cover.

Tom had moved on from the label I was working for and had

no say in the album art. Sensing an opportunity, I offered to

show Tom the photograph for approval before sending it to

the record company.

Within hours I received a call asking when and where.

Tom arrived at my Greenwich Village lo, where we spent the

next hour chatting and creating the portrait. For most fans,

meeting their musical heroes never happens. I had the rare

experience of becoming a friend of Tom before becoming a fan

of Tom. Thirty-five years have passed since our first session. Not

in my wildest dreams as a twenty-five-year-old aspiring photog-

rapher did I imagine in my sixtieth year I would be sharing the

history of our creative connection.

Several years ago, as I was organizing my photography archives,

I came upon the original negatives from the many times Tom

and I had worked together creating a portrait for a magazine

interview, album cover illustration, music video performance,

or live stage show.

Although I had captured hundreds of images of Tom, only a

handful had been published. The realization that so many of

these moments from such a long and fulfilling collaboration

would never see the light of day not only seemed like a wasteit

made me mad.

I have been a freelance artist my entire careerone hundred

percent responsible for scoring my next gig. The only way I

could escape the fate of losing these images to dust, decay, and

darkness was to create my own project.

Rather than approaching the book as a collection of portraits,

I would envision it as a portrait of a creative collaborationa

shared journey of artist and subject who have traveled many

years, exploring diverse projects and multiple mediums along

the way.

To undertake such a thrilling project was daunting, yet having

the opportunity to breathe new life into images that had been

dormant for decades banished any worries over the time and

work such a book would demand.

I called Tom to get his blessing.

He was cool.

Toms blessing and the chance to see so many images with

fresh eyes empowered me with great purpose to discover what

the book could become. Since I was not creating images for a

paying client or specific purpose, I now had the freedom of the

unknown daring me to dive into those neglected negatives and

follow the flow of where they wanted to take me.

More muse than musician, I relied on the images of Tom to

reveal the unfamiliar and the unexpected. When creating the

twenty illustrations inspired by Toms songs, I would simply put

on the song and begin creating. No planning, no sketching, no

preliminary studieslistening over and over and over until I

was done.

This book is one more chapter in our artistic historytold

from three thousand miles apart and without a word between

us. Toms body language part-ape, part-ballerina. His facial

expressions part-prankster, part-monsterall whispering or

wailing to me what they wanted to be. A hung bull, a pung

tractor, a suffering clown.

I would be remiss if I did not honor the invaluable partnership

Tom shares with his wife, Kathleen Brennannot only a bril-

liant writer and artist, but one who always sees the big picture.

Over the years she has been a constant source of grace, humor,

love, smarts, guts, and plain-old fucking common sense in cut-

ting through the bullshit and setting the course for all involved

and all that is possible.

My hope is that this book will not only connect with Toms

fans and those who know my work, but will also inspire fellow

creative professionals pursuing photography, painting, illustra-

tion, digital imaging, and filmmakingespecially those seeking

the confidence to believe in the possibilities of all that can be

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